Moving on

FOR a game so reliant on the power of positive thinking, Irish Open memories do not come much better than Shane Lowry’s.

The images of the soaked Offaly amateur raising his putter aloft in triumph at Baltray two years ago brought a cheer to Irish golfing hearts and for the player himself, surveying the scene remains a very happy thought in the mental locker that all golfers summon during the course of a round.

Yet aside from being two years older and having turned professional soon after that remarkable week, the 24-year-old feels he has moved on a long way since.